About me

Leila Nicolas PhD serves as both a scholar, practitioner and political commentator. She is a Professor of International Affairs in the Lebanese University In Beirut, research fellow at Bard college, New York. Her research and teaching interests include the UN system, R2p, transitional Justice, peacebuilding, International criminal tribunals, and MENA politics.

In 2016, She had been granted a scholarship from US department of State for a post- doctoral program "Grand Strategy in context". She is the author of 4 Arabic published Books in addition tomore than 80 ( Arabic and English) refereed journal articles, book chapters, working papers and conference lectures. She has been granted by The International Center of Human Sciences( CISH) - UNESCO, a grant for achieving a field study research about transitions in Arab world. The UNESCO study " Transitional Justice in Arab World: Lessons from Morocco and Iraq" (Lebanon: CISH- UNESCO, 2014). Her English and Arabic Papers have appeared in leading journals in the Arab World, includingLeb. UniversityLaw and Political Sciences Quarterly.

Her published study,International Criminal tribunals: Achievements and Failures(Sweden: Cedar River production, 2013), was presented in the Peace Palace Library and The ICC Library in the Hague.

Dr. Nicolas serves as a senior consultant and MENA expert for many international organizations, of them Transtec. international ( Brussels), Touch consulting international ( Sweden). She is also a political analyst and commentator for a number of media outlets about MENA regional issues, and international Affairs. She is a co- founder ofLebanese for Democracy and Good governance, and a Board member in many MENA Regional NGOs.

She participated in many international and regional conferences and symposiums, lectured about MENA issues in Oxford University (2014) Claremont Mckenna colleges and California State University (2010), in addition to being the recipient of a number of international awards.